Globalization and Industrial Growth
One similarity among countries that experienced rapid industrialization during the late 1990s and early 2000s was that these nations were
What are developing societies?
The most significant issue Canada dealt with in the postwar era was the
What is the separatist movement in French Speaking Quebec?
This political system in Mexico was under control from the 1940s until the 2000 presidential election
What is the Party of the Institutionalized Revolution (PRI)?
The greatest barrier to rapid economic breakthroughs in the former European colonies in Africa and Asia was
What is spiraling population increases?
__________ headed the American occupation government in Japan after the end of World War II.
Who is Harry Truman?
By the end of the twentieth century one of the few countries left in the world that held back from global participation
What is North Korea?
Beginning in the Cold War era, Soviet and Western societies shared similar demographic patterns involving
What is decreasing birth rates?
The first Latin American nation to extend suffrage to women was
What is Ecuador?
India’s Green Revolution most impacted economic growth in the __________ sector
What is the Agricultural sector?
__________ dominated the Communist Party of Vietnam from the late 1920s and led the resistance against French and U.S. dominance of this region until his death in 1969.
Who is Ho Chi Minh?
The "Yellow Dragon" that China experienced as industrialization increased at the end of the twentieth century was caused by
What is the emission of industrial gasses?
By the end of the 1960s, most European workers were employed in
What is the service sector?
During the 1950s, radical reform movements in Latin American nations, such as Bolivia and Guatemala, resulted in
What is military takeovers of the national government?
In 1972, the new nation of __________ emerged after East Pakistan seceded from West Pakistan
What is Bangladesh?
__________ is currently the most common political ideology in most of the Pacific Rim states.
What is communism?
Despite prevention efforts and new treatments that reduced death rates in most parts of the world, AIDS is still an acute problem in areas of
What is Africa?
A strong emphasis on central controls coupled with demagoguery and paranoia best described
What is Stalin's rule in the Soviet Union?
The activist position taken by Catholic clergy in Latin America during the late twentieth century provoked attacks against the ministry, including the 1980 assassination of
Who is Archbishop Oscar Romero of El Salvador?
One of the few secessionist movements that succeeded in Africa and resulted in the division of the country into two states occurred in
What is Sudan?
Nationalist rule under Chiang Kai-shek in Taiwan during the early postwar era can be described as
What is authoritarian?
Automobile company Volkswagen is __________ because its design is German, its production facilities are in Mexico, and its products are marketed around the world.
What is a multinational corporation?
During the 1960s, Jean-Luc Godard, Michelangelo Antonioni, and Ingmar Bergman advanced European
What is Filmmaking?
By the 1970s, the philosophy of liberation theology used by the Catholic church in Latin America to improve conditions for the poor combined Catholic doctrine with
What is socialist principles?
The post-apartheid 1994 elections in South Africa brought the __________ to power
What is the African National Congress party?
The People’s Action Party in __________ suppressed opposition movements and imposed a high degree of unusual discipline on its citizens
What is Singapore?